Genius always finds itself a century too early.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

All writing comes by the grace of God.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.